Resources for Student Sucess
What we can do for you:
- Work with you one on one or in small groups to review what you have learned in class.
- Give you time to ask more questions, clarify information or concepts, and practice skills.
- Provide visual and manipulative aids to help you learn skills and information in a different way, one that may reflect your learning style more closely.
- Help you with homework assignments.
- Assist with writing assignments, from organizing to editing.
- Work with you to review and improve your culinary math skills.
- Work with you to develop more effective study skills, including note taking, time management and organization.
- Manage test retakes for various courses, including the ServSafe Sanitation Exam.
- review sessions
- study guides
- practice test
- Help you complete or revise projects for courses in which you are incomplete.
- Coordinate classroom accommodations and advising if you are a student with documented learning challenges or difficulties.
- Provide a quiet work space with computers and a wide range of reference materials.
- Coordinate kitchen and production skills practice and review, under the guidance of a peer tutor.
Where you can find us:
The Learning Center has two locations, 7 School Street, next to the servery and across from the classrooms, and on the lower level of Alumni Hall, near faculty and staff offices and classrooms.
Learning Center staff are also available for on-line students via email and telephone.
When are the Learning Centers open?
The Learning Centers are open 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday.
Evening study sessions, staffed by peer tutors, are also scheduled weekly, both in the School Street Learning Center and in the RA office in Glover Hall. Check the schedules posted at each Learning Center for the days and times of the evening hours.
Peer tutors are available to work with you at times when the Learning Centers are not open.
Who will work with you?
In Alumni Hall, Jackie Burke will be your primary resource. Jackie has worked in NECI’s Learning Center for ten years. In addition, she is a member of NECI’s Core Faculty and teaches culinary math in the Certificate in Professional Cooking program.
At School Street you will be working with Gale Rome, who has been providing learning support services to NECI students for over four years. Gale also is Core Faculty and coordinates the peer tutor program and the community literacy program at Montpelier’s Kellogg-Hubbard Public Library.
Both campuses also have a staff of peer tutors available to work with students. Peer tutors are students who have been recommended by faculty and trained by the Learning Center staff to provide assistance with course content and projects.
How do you take advantage of the Learning Center resources?
Stop by the Learning Center—we’re pretty easy to find. If Jackie, Gale, or a peer tutor is available when you stop by, then we can work with you right then.
If the staff is busy when you stop by, you can make an appointment for a later time. You can also call or email us to ask a question, see when we are available, or to make an appointment.
BA HRM On-line students: Jackie can do a telephone tutorial with you for most courses. Give her a call or email her to set up a telephone tutorial.
Contact information:
Jackie Burke
Director, NECI Learning Centers
56 College St.
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802.595.9367
Fax: 802.225.8937
jackie.burke@neci.edu
Gale Rome
School Street Learning Center Coordinator
7 School St.
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802.225.3327
Fax: 802.225.3375
gale.rome@neci.edu
